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Kim ki Duk always did exotic on his film.
It seem like the story line is critical morality.
but I respect his film.
"Pieta".may be it make us cavaliers more than
"Sad Dreams" and "Breath"
so I can't waiting to see...

Kim ki Duk Fighting!!!  JJ Fighting!!!

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***Ahhh………I still have to buy the DVD copy of his last movie, Wonderful Radio. SYJ - this guy has good taste. She’s pretty & good actress as well. Who wouldn't like her, huh? )

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class="entry-title"Lee Jung Jin chooses KARA’s Hara and Son Ye Jin as his favorite stars

On SBS‘s Power FM ‘Jang Gi Ha’s Great Radio‘ which aired recently, listeners had a chance to ask actor Lee Jung Jin some questions.

On the question of which idol he likes the most, the actor did not hesitate as he promptly chose Kara‘s Hara as his favorite idol.

In addition, when asked which actress he would like to meet at least once, he chose actress Son Ye Jin. In response to his answer he explained, “I’ve watched her act for a long time now and i’m curious as to what kind of person actress Son Ye Jin is.”

Meanwhile, Lee Jung Jin’s new movie ‘Pieta‘ is nearing its release later this summer. Many are anticipating the actor’s transformation in director Kim Ki Duk‘s production.

Which of the two female stars do you think is a better match for the actor?

Source + Image: Newsen / allkpop

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Updated cast and stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Pieta"

Updated cast and stills for the upcoming Korean movie "Pieta" (2012)

Directed by Kim Ki-duk

With Jo Min-soo, Lee Jeong-jin, Woo Gi-hong, Kang Eun-jin, Jo Jae-ryong, Lee Myeong-ja,...

Synopsis
A solitary man who grew up as an orphan works as a cruel loan shark. A mysterious woman claims to be his mother and he finds himeself becoming attached to her only to realize her extreme yet sad movie.

Release date in Korea : 2012/09/06

Source : www.hancinema.net/kor... ( English Korean )

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23 Aug 2012

두드림가기전 머리하는중 졸리당 ㅠ
http://twitpic.com/amdy6c
촬영장가서 인증샷을 올려야하나??ㅎㅎ
Before going to the studio of 'Do Dream', I'm having my hair dressed.
I've become sleepyㅠ
I feel like showing my shot there?? ㅎㅎ



머리완성후 두드림 촬영중 ㅎㅎ http://twitpic.com/amh0pc
Finishing my hair I'm shooting Do Dream nowㅎㅎ



english translated : takajungjin yahoo blog

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credit : newsen & star news

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August 29, 2012


Kim Ki-duk’s ‘Pieta’ in competition for Venice



Director Kim Ki-duk, left, speaks at a press conference on Wednesday in Seoul. Kim’s latest work “Pieta,” starring actress Cho Min-su, center, and actor Lee Jung-jin, will vie for the top prize Golden Lion at the 69th Venice Film Festival which kicked off Wednesday. / Yonhap


By Rachel Lee, Kwaak Je-yup

It’s the time of the year again when the world’s finest film directors and stars flock to an island in north eastern Italy.

The Venice Film Festival, the oldest event of its kind in the world, opened Wednesday on the island of Lido, and veteran director Kim Ki-duk will represent Korea for the main competition.

“I would like to see and learn how other directors look at today’s society,” said Kim at a press conference on Wednesday in Seoul. “It will provide new perspectives.”

“Pieta,” his latest film, is among the 18 films chosen to vie for the top prize Golden Lion in Venice. It is up against some high-profile features by the likes of Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson and Brian de Palma. The festival opens with “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” by Mira Nair, an adaptation of the Moshin Hamid bestseller about a Pakistani Princeton graduate dealing with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

While declining to give any spoilers during the media event, the 51-year-old director said the new work takes a religious approach to aspects of real life such as fear and trouble.

It is the first time since Park Chan-wook’s “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance” in 2005 that a Korean film will compete for the top prize in the Venice film festival, one of the world’s three most authoritative events along with Festival de Cannes and the Berlinale.

“Pieta” marks Kim’s fourth film to go to Venice since “The Isle” (2000), “Address Unknown” (2001) and “3-Iron” (2004). The last among the three won the Silver Lion, the best director award eight years ago.

“Pieta” is Kim’s 18th feature film and refers to the biblical scene most famously depicted in Michelangelo’s sculpture at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

In the film, a heartless loan shark (Lee Jung-jin) is visited by a mysterious woman (Cho Min-su) claiming to be his birth mother. But when she suddenly disappears, he discovers a tragic secret.

After his 1996 debut with “Crocodile,” Kim is one of the most frequently invited directors to the world’s three most prestigious film festivals. He is also known for his 2003 film, “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring,” which depicted the life of a Buddhist monk and his young protege while encapsulating features of Buddhist philosophy.

Established in 1932, the Venice film festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. In its 69th edition, the Venice Film Festival ends on Sept. 8.

“Pieta” is to open in theaters nationwide on Sept. 6. Runs for 104 minutes. Rated for 18 and over. Distributed by Next Entertainment World (NEW)



rachel@koreatimes.co.kr

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29 Aug 2012
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August 31, 2012

‘Pieta’ to represent Korea at Venice Film Festival

At this year’s Venice Film Festival, “Pieta” will represent Korean cinema as it competes in the Golden Lion Prize segment, which picks the best film of the year out of 18 titles.


Director Kim Ki-duk attended a press conference for his movie on Aug. 29, the day that the Italian film fest kicked off, and answered questions in regards to the Korean film that broke the seven-year dry spell at the renowned event.
This year marks Kim’s fourth representation at the world’s oldest film festival.

There are two other representing Korea this year: “The Weight” and “Invitation,” but they are presented in the non-competing segments.

The ceremony will draw to an end on Sep. 8 and the winner will be awarded with the Golden Lion Prize.

The film opens in Korea on Sep. 6.


By Carla Sunwoo [carlasunwoo@joongang.co.kr]


credit : JoongAngDaily

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September 3, 2012

‘Pieta’ set for Venice Film Fest debut

Jo Min-su and Lee Jung-jin, the stars of Kim Ki-duk’s new movie “Pieta,” will leave for Italy to attend the premier of the Korean film at the Venice Film Festival, according to the movie distributor NEW yesterday.

The two actors will attend a press conference for “Pieta” in Venice at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Central European Time.

The movie - the 51-year-old French-educated Korean director’s 18th - is competing with 17 other films from all over the world in the Golden Lion Prize segment at the prestigious film festival, which kicked off Wednesday.

It is Kim’s fourth movie invited to the Venice festival.

“Pieta” is about an unexpected turn in the life of a cold-blooded debt collector, played by Lee, 34, who is surprised by the visit of a middle-aged woman, played by Jo, 47, who claims she is his mother.

It is the first Korean movie to compete in Venice since Park Chan-wook’s “Lady Vengeance” in 2005.

“Pieta” has also been invited to Toronto International Film Festival and Hamburg Film Festival.

By Moon Gwang-lip


credit : JoongAngDaily

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so tall! but not much like the hair! hahahhahah 

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Venezia 69

PIETA - KI-DUK KIM All sections »   Synopsis
Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at fi rst, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent life. Then suddenly the mother is kidnapped. Assuming that it would be by someone he had hurt in the past, he starts to track down all the people he had harassed. The man fi nally fi nds the one, only to discover most horrifi ng dark secrets better left unrevealed. 4 September 16:30 - Sala Grande 4 September 22:30 - PalaBiennale VENEZIA 69 Pieta by Ki-duk Kim - South Korea, 104'
language: Korean - s/t English, Italian
Cho Min-soo, Lee Jung-jin   Director’s Statement
Money inevitably puts people to the test in a capitalist society, and the people today are obsessed with a fantasy that money can solve anything. Money is the problem for most of the incidents that occur today. In this fi lm, two people who give and receive pain over money, unlikely to meet, comes across each other and become family. And through such family, we realize that we are accomplices to everything that occurs in our period. Money will ask sad questions until the people of this era die. Ultimately, we will end up becoming a money to each other and grind ourselves on an asphalt. I again cry out towards heaven with a meager faith today. God, have mercy on us.

reposted : http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/off-sel/venezia69/pieta.html

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JJ with his mom in "Pieta" Movie
from Inchone Airport  to 69th Venice International Film Festival
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The two actors will attend a press conference for “Pieta”
in Venice at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Central European Time.

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Photo @RunJungjin twitter from Venice, Italy

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Korean film director Kim Ki-duk and actors Cho Min-soo and Lee Jung-jin (from left) pose during a photocall for "Pieta" at the 69th Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. The film is competing for the Golden Lion. /AFP-Yonhap


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Korean morality tale premieres at Venice film fest

South Korean director Kim Ki-duk brought his brand of excruciating emotion and troubling imagery to the Venice film festival Tuesday with his condemnation of extreme capitalism in "Pieta".

The film revolves around a brutal loan shark played by Lee Jung-jin who prowls the back alleys and small workshops of a central area of Seoul that is quickly going out of business and being replaced by skyscrapers.

Kim said at a press conference that he had been inspired by Michelangelo's famous "Pieta" statue in the Vatican of a Virgin Mary holding the corpse of her son Jesus Christ as well as the fallout from the current economic crisis.

"I've been to the Vatican twice to admire this masterpiece by Michelangelo. The image of this embrace has stayed with me for many years. For me it is an embrace of humanity," said the pony-tailed 51-year-old director.

"I feel that this movie in particular is a movie dedicated to humankind in a situation of a deep crisis in extreme capitalism," he said.

"There are three protagonists. The two actors and the third one is money."

Lee spoke of his apprehension when taking the part, saying: "I was a bit afraid because he works with darkness, with difficulty but it all went very well... I was not asked to play beautiful scenes but to play true scenes."

Lee's character is often compared to an infernal creature by his victims and he enforces a grim Faustian pact -- hobbling the artisans who cannot pay their debts in order to cash in on the insurance they have been forced to take out.

One day a woman claiming to be his mother walks into his life and he tries to change his ways in an emotional crescendo until an ending in which audiences are left wondering whether there can ever be redemption for such a cruel man.

Kim has won awards at the Berlin and Venice film festivals and is known for shooting quickly and on low budgets. This is his 18th feature film.

"Pieta" is one of 18 movies vying for this year's Golden Lion prize, which will be announced on Saturday.

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(Movie Review) Kim Ki-duk's 'Pieta' films dark side of capitalism By Shim Sun-ah


SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Yonhap) -- "Pieta," a bruising but wisely-woven drama by master director Kim Ki-duk, plainly shows how money can destroy humanity and create hellish interpersonal relationships.

   The film opens as a thick chain is lowered from the ceiling. A young man in a wheelchair hangs himself by tying the chain around his neck, and that is the beginning of the tragedy.





Then the unlikely protagonist Gang-do (Lee Jung-jin) appears, a lonely and brutal man working as a debt collector for a loan shark. He cripples clients if they cannot pay their debts by cutting their hands with a machine or pushing them off high buildings to use the insurance payments for their injuries to make up the difference.

   One day, this diabolical man is visited by a mysterious woman, Mi-sun (Jo Min-soo), who claims to be his long-lost mother, apologizing for abandoning him at birth. The man, who has been living for 30 or more years with no family, believing he was abandoned by his parents, initially tries to shun her, treating her harshly. But gradually slipping deep into the mother-son relationship, Gang-do recovers his humanity. Then Mi-sun suddenly disappears and Gang-do is confronted with an enormous secret.

   The title "Pieta" gives the false impression that the film is about trying to find meaning in life through religion. Director-writer-producer Kim, instead, cleverly borrows imagery from Christianity. For instance, the camera repeatedly focuses on a red cross glowing at night on top of a church, so close to where Gang-do lives in Seoul's industrial area of Cheonggyecheon that he can see it whenever he opens a window in his room. The film also alludes to images of Jesus Christ bleeding on a crucifix and the Virgin Mary grieving over her dead son.

   The red cross and new high-rise buildings surrounding the area are in stark contrast to the dark and dilapidated back alleys of the area where Gang-do and most of his clients dwell, showing how hellish this extreme capitalist society is, since people believe money is everything.

   In this human jungle where the winner takes all, Gang-do cannot survive without resorting to violence. The victims -- mostly owners or employees of small-scale industrial workshops teeming with machinery -- curse Gang-do for his merciless deeds, with one couple exchanging abusive language as they blame each other for taking the high-interest loan.





Starting in the second half of the movie, the revenge switches positions between those who harm others, including Gang-do, and his victims. Although employing no direct physical violence, the revenge on Gang-do is unimaginably cruel and harsh. He then comes to realize how he destroyed other people's lives.

   The director shows that endless human greed can turn the world into a living hell, and all of us may have played a role in driving downtrodden individuals to suicide, even unintentionally, as they compete with others to take more of the pie.

   In many ways, the film is excellent in effectively delivering that message. It is too dry and rough, however, like a documentary film, with occasional zoom-in and hand-held camera work and almost no music. The movie also does not have sophisticated and sensitive scenes that shined in his previously internationally acclaimed works, "Samaritan Girl," (2004) "3-Iron" (2004) and "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" (2003).

   The abrupt change of Mi-sun from a self-proclaimed mother who initially keeps following Gang-do with sad looks to the incarnation of revenge in the second half is unrealistic. It is hard to imagine how an ordinary woman could perform acts of deception rivaling a professional actress, without being an actual actress.

   "Pieta," the 18th film of the prolific director, opens in local theaters on Sept. 6.



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[PHOTO] Lee Jung-jin, Cho Min-soo, Kim Ki-duk arrive at Venice Film Festival for "Pieta"

Actress Cho Min-soo and actor Lee Jung-Jin attended the premiere of Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta" at the 69th Venice Film Festival opening in Venice, Italy, on September 4.

sheathed in figure-hugging black dress by Edward Shin's high-end couture brand Publicka Atelier, Cho strut the red carpet while throwing smiles to reporters and cameras at the scene.

Lee, meanwhile, chose Dolce & Gabbana for his red carpet look. He cut a dash at both the carpet and press conference, where he was joined by reporters from various Italian media outlets, according to distributor NEW's press release Wednesday.

"Going to the film festival is like taking a class at school for me. By going there I can share perspectives of directors from around the world. This could enhance film export opportunities and expand the environment [for productions]," Kim said at a press conference held in Seoul on August 29.

"Pieta" is Kim's 18th feature film and one of 18 movies competing for the Golden Lion prize.

Providing the director's insights into capitalism, the story centers around a merciless loan shark [Lee] who brutally uses violence to underprivileged members of the society working near the Cheonggye Stream, which used to be the center of Seoul's thriving economy between the 1970s and 90s.

After a woman, who claims to be his mother that left him after giving birth to him, steps into the man's life, the vicious and brutal man experience changes in his life.

This year's Golden Lion Prize will be announced on September 8.



Director Kim Ki-duk (left), actor Lee Jung-jin (second to left) and actress Cho Min-soo (right) pose at the 69th Venice Film Festival's red carpet in Venice, Italy, on September 4.



Director Kim Ki-duk (second to left), actress Cho Min-soo (second to right) and actor Lee Jung-jin (right) pose together at the 69th Venice Film Festival opening in Venice, Italy, on September 4.



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he looks great! its just perfect! pls oppa jun jin stay your body like that, no skinny face, hehehhehe